Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! 🏆 We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon! tinytapeout.com/competitions... Thanks again to our judges and participants! #silicon #demoscene #ASIC

1/5 My two demos won 1st place in Graphics (Warp) and 1st place in Best for size and Single tile (WhyNot?) at the @tinytapeout.com demo competition. Huge thanks to the jury for the recognition. Means a lot to me: started hardware in 2018, and it became a big adventure. m.youtube.com/watch?v=il_q...

Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners! www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

Finally, we’re ready to announce the demoscene competition winners! 🎉 Join us live on Wednesday the 11th at 19:00 CET to find out who won—and to hear how our amazing judges chose the winners. Click “Notify me” on the stream to get an alert when we go live: www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

come warm yourself by my 100% FPGA logic 3D rasterization pipeline… while the geometry engine (also logic) cubes.

How can you fit a retro tunnel effect with a sound track in 161x225 μm of silicon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOY... Checkout my detailed write up on making a demo entry to the @tinytapeout.com tt08 competition: github.com/sylefeb/tt08... #asic #fpga #graphics #hardware

1/3) Wow, TT08 @tinytapeout.com including all demoscene entries landed and I had no clue, imagine my surprise discovering all the fantastic demos (see below, thx bitluni!) on actual hardware. Kudos to all contributors and the team!! youtube.com/watch?v=A9BhSaqL7jg

I finally got around to doing another Surfer release, so now we're on v0.4.0 🎉 My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...

“Computer graphics provide ways of simulating reality, or building fantastic new worlds, and the power to explore and manipulate those 3D worlds.” Painting By Numbers, BBC Horizon 1981: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-5...

Quake speedrunning and skill has reached unbelievable new heights. Simply amazing! youtu.be/Uu1_f3-KgtE?...

I'm learning the hard way about termination series resistors. There's a lot more to this story, but this little 0603 51ohm resistor resolved a nightmare that's been haunting me for like ... 2 years!!! (trace is a SPI clock at 50MHz) #pcb #fpga

WolFPGA on the icepi-zero! Works great!! ( #Wolfenstein raycaster on #FPGA, no CPU, pure graphics, in #Silice) It is a very neat board, packed with features. (Silice already has support, check it out!). Crowd funding still open for a few hours, check it out : www.crowdsupply.com/icy-electron...

Sylvain Munaut has made a best-effort attempt at bringing the 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics accelerator back from the grave — as an accessory for the popular Raspberry Pi 5.

An interesting #retrocomputing channel by Bits und Bolts #retrogaming #MSDOS #Windows95 #Windows98

Raspberry just addressed several issues in the RP2354 - really great to see, and very cool post. Plus, there is a new hacking challenge ;) www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-...

A fantastic result, finally getting rid of layers, filling the part with optimized free-form (well spaced, near constant flow) paths! "Spaghetti"? Yes, but these are ordered in a sequence and can print without collisions. Amazing work by the team! #3dprinting www.linkedin.com/posts/xavier...

My thesis is now published online! 🎉 urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

1/3 Pro-tip: (WebGPU + Emscripten) if you are wondering why your mapped buffer contains only zeros, make sure to use wgpuBufferGetConstMappedRange on your WGPUBufferUsage_MapRead buffer.

An article about how using a HAIRDRYER, one can achieve interesting graphical effects on #Atari8bit computers (non-English so use your favorite translator): atariarea.krap.pl/artykul/dgf/41 #retrodev #reverseengineering #atari #retrocomputing

#Silice now has preliminary support for @whitequark.org YoWASP! Checkout Silice getting started instructions here: github.com/sylefeb/Sili... (draft branch) pip install yowasp-silice!

Really enjoyed some of the back story of the jumperless development on the latest amphour podcast - check it out! theamphour.com/689-a-jumper... @architeuthisflux.bsky.social @chrisgammell.bsky.social

Nearing a #Silice main branch update, testing a5k and it still just works! This is a complete hardware implementation of Another World's VM on #FPGA, here running on the mighty #mch2022 badge. a5k repo + write up: github.com/sylefeb/a5k Silice: github.com/sylefeb/Sili...

I finally got around to testing the second project I had on #TinyTapeout 06. This squeezed 64 bytes of RAM into a single Tiny Tapeout tile (roughly 160x100 um). It works!

1/ Ooooh! 🙏

Very useful! xxd -i binary_file > c_header.h

I’m Tom. When not giving in to my test equipment addiction, I play with LEDs and PacMan.

I love the RP2040 and RP2350: amazing, useful tiny chips. Thus I enjoyed watching this talk on how to hack the RP2350. Goes into lots of hardware details. Sure, it means the RP2350 is less secure than we hoped, but I trust a new revision will soon correct this! media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacki...

After 31 years, a mysterious version of #Doom 1993 has been uncovered! Happy birthday, Doom! 🎉 (stay tuned for more on this 😎 )